Child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order for her horrific crimes.
18.08.2023 - 17:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
If she hadn’t murdered tiny babies, Lucy Letby would be considered an unremarkable woman - ‘beige’ is how one of the detectives who investigated her terrible crimes described her.
She lived in a modest three-bed semi on the Blacon estate on the outskirts of Chester. She had two teddy bears on her bed, two pet cats, Smudge and Tigger, and was a fan of Take That, Love Island and salsa dancing. Single, she was said to have an active social life. She sometimes went into work in the neonatal unit at the city’s hospital carrying a Morrisons shopping bag.
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But underneath her veneer of humdrum normalcy was a truth so shocking her own colleagues struggled to believe it. After all, nobody wants to believe a nurse would attack babies.
The sinister, barely conceivable truth is that Letby, who told colleagues it was ‘boring’ looking after babies who merely needed feeding, gravitated towards sick and extremely premature infants and, in the end, got a sick thrill from cleverly and discreetly attacking infants in her care - even when colleagues were close by.
She then quietly watched the carnage she had caused unfold.
Letby had worked as a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital looking after infants since 2010, many of them born prematurely.
But, quietly and often right under the noses of her colleagues, she was attacking tiny, fragile newborns, some of them born so prematurely they weighed not much more than one pound and could fit on the palm of a hand.
She carried out these crimes between June 2015 and June 2016. The jury in her trial heard some of the attacks came after consultants had raised concerns with managers at the
Child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order for her horrific crimes.
Lucy Letby once lived a comfortable life in a three-bed property near Chester.
Killer nurse Lucy Letby, who murdered seven babies and tried to kill six more, was among the worst offenders sent to jail in the UK in the last month. The 'evil' serial killer will die behind bars after being handed a whole-life term, while more than 10 other offenders jailed in August will spend at least two decades locked up for their crimes.
It has been a busy month in our region's courts.
The chairman of the hospital at the time Lucy Letby carried out her killing spree was the chief executive of NHS England at the time of the 'Angel of Death' Beverley Allitt murders.
Baby killer Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order this week after murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working as an NHS nurse. The 33-year-old refused to face her victims’ families in court as they read out harrowing statements telling how she ripped their lives apart.
Baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in jail after being sentenced to a whole life order for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more. The evil nurse will never return to the three-bedroom house where she lived during her heinous crimes.
An hour long documentary detailing the investigation into serial child killer Lucy Letby has been released by the police team who brought her to justice.
A hospital consultant said he was made to feel he was 'a problem' when he blew the whistle on killer nurse Lucy Letby.
Lucy Letby will likely spend the rest of her life in prison.
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Serial baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after receiving the UK's most severe punishment for her crimes.
These are all the words the judge said as Lucy Letby, the nurse who murdered babies on the neonatal unit where she worked, was sentenced today (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court.
The flag above Manchester Crown Court is flying at half mast this afternoon as a mark of respect to the victims of Lucy Letby. It comes as the neonatal nurse is set to be taken from the court building to begin spending the rest of her life in prison.
A senior manager who was in charge of nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital when Lucy Letby carried out her murderous attacks on babies has been suspended from her current role.
The mum of a baby murdered by Lucy Letby has told a court how the evil nurse only had one word for the parents of the seven babies she killed.
Lucy Letby has become one of few female murderers in the UK to receive a whole life sentence - meaning they will never be released from prison.
Nurse Lucy Letby will die behind bars after being found guilty of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. The judge told the nurse she acted "in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies", as he handed down his sentence at Manchester Crown Court this afternoon.
Cowardly child killer Lucy Letby refused to appear in court at her sentencing hearing today.
Lucy Letby claimed she was being victimised and received an apology after two doctors tried to warn that she could be responsible for a series of baby deaths, documents show.The 33-year-old, now deemed to be the most prolific child killer in modern history, was on Friday convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more following a ten-month trial. She is today (Monday) due to be sentenced Manchester Crown Court by judge Mr Justice Goss.